Thursday, October 15, 2015

Roswell: Hiatus or Change?

Is it time to give the Roswell affair a rest until there is actually something new to say, instead of just going over old ground? In my view, yes. And it's the subject of a new article from me, which you can find here.

Here's how it starts:

"If you are a regular follower of Kevin Randle’s 'A Different Perspective' blog,
you’ll know that he has recently posted a few new articles on Roswell.
One is on the controversy concerning the so-called “Roswell Slides” –
which are actually nothing of the sort. And everyone knows
that. A second was on the matter of the size of the debris field on the
Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico, where the wreckage of 'it'
(whatever 'it' may have been) was found. And the third new article from
Kevin deals with a military man who suspected that what came down was an
aircraft. And, if you are a regular reader of Rich Reynolds’ UFO Conjecture(s)
blog, you’ll know that Rich feels Ufology may be on its last legs, and
that endless debate about Roswell is pointless and cannot lead anywhere.
All of which brings me to the matter of this article.

"As much as I recognize Kevin’s enthusiasm for solving Roswell, I have
to say that endlessly debating every tiny detail, repeatedly
scrutinizing every single word spoken by those on-site, and trying to
figure out the size of the debris field does not – and never will
– provide answers to what really happened a few hours’ drive outside of
Roswell in the summer of 1947. Here’s what I mean: the Air Force
believes that what came down on the Foster Ranch was neither a
weather-balloon nor a UFO, but a Mogul balloon. Now, if a debate about
the size of the debris-field suggests it wasn’t a Mogul balloon or a weather-balloon…well… that’s all it achieves. And it’s all that such a debate can achieve."